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601.
by cpr 11y ago
I'm sorry, but I've never heard in all my decades of life about female mutilation among Christians. Can you point to some credible evidence?
602.
by cpr 11y ago
Yes, but circumcision doesn't seem to have any long-term effects on genital function. Yes, there are arguments back and forth in the medical community, but it's not an obvious mutilation.
603.
by cpr 11y ago
Yes, but it's taboo (this will get downvoted hard) to point out that neither the Christian nor Jewish communities are involved in such activities. (Not that Christians and Jews as a group are sinless, of course.)
604.
by cpr 11y ago
As I said, he'd been there 30 years. If that's a revolving door, it ain't spinnin' very fast. I'm as cynical as anyone, but in this case I don't think it's warranted.
605.
by cpr 11y ago
When we were signing up for fracking under our land, we contacted the Ohio Dept of Natural Resources fellow who's responsible for tracking such things (groundwater contamination), and he said he had seen no evidence in 30 years of dril
606.
by cpr 11y ago
Great, bioweapon defense mode so the Masters of the Universe can all hop in their cars and safely leave a big city under bioweapons attack, while the rest of us lie gasping on the sidewalk...
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by cpr 11y ago
Agree. They clearly have some real-world kerning tuning to do, but I don't know if that will happen given their "look at our perfect new font" campaign. Let's hope the font nerds deep in the bowels of Apple will do the r
608.
by cpr 11y ago
Oh, and these idealistic socialists you want to take over and transform San Francisco? Good luck dealing with them once they're in power. Oh, wait, doesn't SF already have a fairly socialistic city government? It's done so we
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by cpr 11y ago
Boy, that brings back real memories! Harvard got the first Unix v7 outside of Bell Labs in, I think, '75, and my office mate in the old Harvard graduate computing center (a medieval beast compared to the new Gates/Ballmer cheese w
610.
by cpr 11y ago
Sound as metadata, multiple frames in a single file pointed to by metadata? First "snapshot" frame the first, so works with normal software? Lotsa ways to play games.
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by cpr 11y ago
It's no mystery that the kinds of systems with massive reach--Google search, Facebook, Twitter--are really not data-consistency-critical applications. Who'll ever know if a search result isn't perfectly up to date or perfec
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by cpr 11y ago
Nifty! Why not define a bunch of custom emoji, one for each card, and use those instead of the big graphics at each turn? Would save massive bandwidth.
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by cpr 11y ago
Airlines may be a bad example, because they were operating for decades under price control, and most of the airlines never recovered from that mindset. The Amtrak syndrome...
614.
by cpr 11y ago
Trying to deny the possibility that the universe could not exist is a fool's errand. Clearly, existence is contingent. There is no logical requirement that matter exist, and there's a clear logical possibility that nothing physica
615.
by cpr 11y ago
So it looks like they've come a rather long way around to building the world's best graphical query builder, with plans for much more beyond?
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by cpr 11y ago
So the obvious fact that PP (along with other abortion "providers") routinely shreds tiny living human beings (dehumanized by labeling them "fetuses" or "fetal tissue") by the hundreds of thousands per year doe
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by cpr 11y ago
There are free micro instances, last I knew.
618.
by cpr 11y ago
Ah, right. Brain infarction.
619.
by cpr 11y ago
Interesting--the kind of trick you'd normally see in an interpretive language. Marshalling a string object ref to an actual value (before it can be used for string manipulations internally) must incur a fair bit of CPU overhead. I gues
620.
by cpr 11y ago
Sure, free except that every dereference has to clear out those bits, unless the target architecture has a "pointer deref ignoring lower n bits" operator/operand.
621.
by cpr 11y ago
Wow, very reminiscent of the Orator type ball on the IBM Selectric.
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by cpr 11y ago
I'm old enough to remember the days (daze?) of punched cards, when I was in high school and working at the Naval Electronic Labs on Point Loma (San Diego). My worst experience was writing a whole compiler in IBM 360 assembler macros, a
623.
by cpr 11y ago
What's more, with the miracle of credit creation by modern banking, only 5% of their money is actually in the bank--the rest is out making more money for the bank. It's all a consensual hallucination which works only as long as ev
624.
by cpr 11y ago
Dalrymple (pseudonym) is one of the most trenchant writers on the British social scene today. (Or was. Can't keep up.)
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by cpr 11y ago
Yes, there's a whole portion of the Amazon Cloud that's run entirely for government (a family member is a higher-up at AWS Gov), and I have to assume they're also running private clouds with physical security, but I have no i
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Welcome to the new Office for Mac(products.office.com)
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by cpr 11y ago
Actually, with GraphQL and now Om Next, you do put your data store "queries" in the component. It's a great idea.
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by cpr 11y ago
The kernel is a concern, but I thought the libraries were container-specific.
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by cpr 11y ago
The OP just means don't put everything into one container.
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by cpr 11y ago
If you believe the self-provided warnings for these drugs, most or all of them warn about suicidal/violent mood side effects. One thing that people may not have heard about the Columbine shooters (because of the usual press corruption)

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